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Friday, August 31, 2012

Obama's Appalling Mistreatment of Israel

As Israeli and Palestinian peace talks are scheduled to resume
in Washington in a few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
reiterated that Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland
is an essential condition for peace. Completely reasonable, yet don't
keep your fingers crossed, especially with the Obama administration's
attitude toward Israel.

In my new book, "Crimes Against Liberty" (I know, another
shameless plug, but you'd do the same in my position), I dedicate an
entire chapter to detailing the Obama administration's horrendous and
unprecedented mistreatment of Israel. Can you believe we're even having a
discussion about Israel's right to the land six-plus decades and
numerous wars after the modern Israeli state was restored to the Jews?

It's bad enough when misfit countries oppose Israel's right to
existence and always demonize Israel while downplaying the Palestinians'
misdeeds, but it's shocking and disturbing when the president of the
United States abuses our greatest ally in the Mideast.
It's mystifying to me that so many Jewish people in America have
been so tolerant of Obama's behavior toward Israel, almost as if in
denial, but what more evidence do we need?

During the campaign, it was widely suspected that Obama had
strong ties with pro-Palestinian groups, not to mention his membership
in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church -- one that is known for its
sympathy for the causes of certain terrorist organizations and the
Palestinian position.

The Los Angeles Times reportedly possessed and protected a
damning video of Obama toasting Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative
and an outspoken Israel critic who, after the 9/11 attacks, referred to
the media's "hysteria about suicide bombers."
Obama's official campaign website, Organizing for America,
permitted the posting of a blog entry titled "How the Jewish Lobby
Works." Though the post was eventually removed, it's suspicious that
someone with posting privileges had these virulently anti-Semitic views.
The post said: "No lobby is feared more or catered to by politicians
than the Jewish Lobby. If a politician does not play ball with the
Jewish Lobby, he will not get elected, or re-elected, and he will either
be smeared or ignored by the Jewish-owned major media." NewsBusters
cited numerous other links to similar anti-Jewish posts on the website,
showing this was not an isolated event. How does one explain away that
kind of climate in the bowels of the administration?

Once elected, Obama appointed James Jones as his national
security adviser, a man The Lid said is "not known as a friend of the
Jewish State." Jones assembled a team that reportedly intended to be
tougher and "impose a solution on" Israel. Early in his term, Obama
pledged more than $900 million to rebuild Gaza and to shore up the
Palestinian Authority. The rationale was to strengthen Palestinian
moderates, but many experts warned that much of this money could get
into the hands of Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gratuitously denounced
Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza while ignoring the many
Palestinian sins against Israel. The administration also demanded that
Israel negotiate with Syria -- a primary sponsor of Hezbollah -- just
two days after Syrian foreign minister Walid Mueller praised a speech by
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling Israel "the most cruel
and repressive racist regime."
The administration has also applied fierce pressure on Israel to
acquiesce on the matter of the creation of a Palestinian state, even to
the point of conditioning our efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear
ambitions on that Israeli concession. Obama directed our return to the
U.N. Human Rights Council, which the Bush administration had left nine
months before because the council had incessantly condemned Israel while
ignoring the abuses of Mideast dictatorships. Obama snubbed Netanyahu
and announced he would discontinue the established practice of hosting
Israeli prime ministers when they are in Washington.
Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, adopted the
controversial 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which called for Israel to
withdraw from east Jerusalem, the entire West Bank and Golan Heights and
also for Israel to accept the influx of millions of foreign Arabs as
Israeli citizens as part of the "right of return." Mideast expert
Caroline Glick says this would mean "Israel would effectively cease to
be a Jewish state."

Vice President Biden engaged in a public temper tantrum and
harshly "condemned" Israel for not bowing to the administration's
demands that it discontinue its settlements in east Jerusalem. Rarely
does the United States publicly condemn an ally, especially in such
harsh terms.

We're just scratching the surface, but surely you get the
picture. There is, however, one gratifying development in this ongoing
saga. Finally, some Jewish Americans have had enough and are speaking
up. As I chronicle in the book, former New York Mayor Ed Koch wrote two
scathing editorials against Obama's appalling policies and called out
his fellow Jews to speak up against them. Amazingly, Obama's stalwart
supporter Sen. Chuck Schumer finally joined Koch in pushing back.
Others, not just American Jews, need to wake up.

Caroline Glick & Mark Levin: The Israeli Solution -- A One-State Pla

Why Israel Opposes International Forces in the Jordan Valley

U.S. scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel

Yet another indication of the absolute corruption of American academia today. "US scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel," from the Jerusalem Post, December 16: NEW YORK – The 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to...http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/us-scholars-group-votes-in-favor-of-academic-boycott-of-israel.html

Israel Living Prophecy

A senior New Israel Fund officer told a U.S. official in 2010 that the disappearance of the Jewish state would not be a tragedy, according to a document that was leaked by Wikileaks...She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

Mideast expert Michael Widlanski: Fatah is a joke

US-Israeli talks focus on Ahmadinejad's possible ouster

How to exploit the deep cracks forming in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration for removing the Iranian president was a top item on the agenda of the high-level talks between Barack Obama's advisers and Israeli officials at Mossad headquarters in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Wednesday, July 29.

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad's cabinet is falling apart; of his original lineup of 21 ministers, only nine remain at their posts.

The Identity Of The Land

Why the Palestinians need to recognize the Jewish State

We do NOT support a 2-state solution

A January 2009 poll found that Americans oppose creating a Palestinian state by 45-31 percent. A February 2009 Maagar Mohot Survey Institute poll has also shown that Israelis oppose creating a Palestinian state by 51-32 percent.

Many other polls tell a similar story.

These figures suggest that Americans and Israelis have understood that creating a Palestinian state under current conditions will not bring peace but merely another terror state.

Netanya,Israel

Jerusalem At Night

Why reconstruct Gaza without making demands

- that Shalit be release without convicted terrorists being released by Israel in exchange,

- that the US be put in charge of the southern border to ensure that Hamas isn’t rearmed?

- that their three preconditions be accepted by Hamas, i.e. agree to all former agreements,recognize Israel and renounce terror

- that Hamas amend their Charter

- That Hamas disconnect from Iran

The answer is that they don’t want to.

Children of Hamas

Picture of Hamas children the media does not show you

IDF: Civilian Deaths in Gaza Less than 25% of Total

A maximum of 25% of the Palestinians killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli operation are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday. According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians and more than half of them are civilians. Levi said the CLA had compiled a list with the names of 900 Palestinians killed during the fighting. He said that 150 names were of women, children and elderly, and that the maximum number of civilians killed so far was 250. Levi also dismissed claims that 43 Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a Hamas terror cell that was firing mortars at Israeli forces from within an UNRWA school in Jabalya. Levi said 21 Palestinians were killed in the attack, including a number of Hamas operatives. (Jerusalem Post)

Hamas teaching the children of Gaza

An Iranian reformist daily newspaper has criticized Hamas "for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals." This is reported in today's Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam. The Palestinian daily adds that in response the Iranian government has closed the newspaper.

"The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", because it published a report that included criticism of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). On December 30 the paper published a statement of a reformist student organization, that has criticized Hamas for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals. The statement was published whilst the Iranian government expresses a unified stands against Israel, and Tehran is overwhelmed by demonstrations against Israel."

[Al-Ayyam, Jan. 1, 2009] Thanks PMW

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Iran-backed Hamas Rocket, Mortar Attacks and Nuclear Developments

9,400+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2003. [1]3,200+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in 2008 alone. [2]6,500+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. [3]543+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israeli territory during the ceasefire from June 19 to Dec. 19, 2008. [4]28 deaths caused by rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. The dead include Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire ended, Iran-backed Palestinian groups in Gaza fired rockets and mortars that killed an Israeli-Arab construction worker and a mother of four who was seeking shelter in a bus station as a rocket warning siren sounded. [5]1,000+ people in Israel injured from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2001, including Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire, 44 Israelis have been injured and 200 have been treated for shock. [6]Thanks Israel Project

It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate theachievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities inPalestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,Arthur James Balfour[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

Favorite Books

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About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member

Syria is an Occupier-Are You Listening World?

As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself.

The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the UN. In meticulous detail - supplemented by photographs and satellite images - the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated.

Though the land grabs are small affairs individually, they collectively add up to an area amounting to about 4% of Lebanese soil - in U.S. terms, the proportional equivalent of Arizona. Of particular note is that the area of Syrian conquest dwarves that of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms which amount to an area of about 12 square miles.

It would be nice to see the Arab world protest this case of illegal occupation, given its passions about the subject.

Information worth Possessing

"Israel gave the Palestinians an autonomy in 42% of the West Bank and Gaza after the Oslo accords in the early 90's. Over 92% of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were then under the administration of the Palestinian Authority and its Chairman Yasser Arafat.

"Israel is surrounded by 10 hostile Arab countries who do not even recognize its right to exist ( Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Morocco, Tunisia, Aden) and Iran"